On 03/14/2016 03:51 AM, Thomas D. wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Eastep wrote: >> The PAGER isn't compiled into the generated script; the script doesn't >> produce output requiring a pager. So it is strictly within the CLI that >> PAGER is used. > > Mh, OK. I only noticed that when I set "PAGER=foo" in shorewall[6].conf > I'll get an error regarding PAGER on safe-restart. That's why I thought > it will be compiled into the script. My fault. > > >> When it comes to default settings, I generally don't change them except >> at a major release. As you have noted, another factor is that there is >> no uniformity with respect to the default pager implementation among the >> distributions. The current Shorewall philosophy is that >> distribution-specific settings are in the shorewallrc file. So we could >> add a new variable such as DEFAULTPAGER to the shorewallrc file and set >> it via the configure[.pl] script(s). Then, shorewall[6].conf could have >> PAGER=$DEFAULTPAGER. > > Well, specifying PAGER in shorewallrc is another thing for me: > > For me the main idea was to use the system (user) default if set. So the > user has something working out of the box. Only if the user don't want > to use the default PAGER in shorewall or no pager at all > shorewall[6].conf needs to be touched. > > So when you set PAGER=/usr/bin/less in shorewallrc because currently the > user has set PAGER=/usr/bin/less environment variable this wouldn't be > dynamic: If the user changes the default pager, shorewall should > instantly use the same new default pager if shorewall is set to use > "system default". > > That was at least my idea. :)
Apologies for dropping this thread for a while.
What I envision is that for Gentoo, you would have DEFAULTPAGER=$PAGER.
$PAGER would get expanded when the shorewallrc file was read by the CLI,
not when the shorewallrc file was created. That is similar to
VARDIR=/${VARLIB}/$PRODUCT in the current shorewallrc file.
-Tom
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